PRI, originally called American Public Radio, was founded in 1983 as a cooperative of stations aiming to compete with NPR. PRI was bought by WBGH, a former American Public Radio affiliate, in July 2012.

In April 2008, PRI and co-producer WNYC debuted The Takeaway, a morning news/talk program designed to compete with NPR’s Morning Edition. The show’s creators intended to “break out from the medium’s conventionally packaged sound” and created a website that emphasizes listener engagement. The Takeaway shares editorial resources with the BBC, The New York Times, and WGBH.

PubliCola is an online local news organization in Seattle that focused on local and state politics and government reporting. It briefly folded in 2012 but reopened a month later as part of SagaCity Media’s Seattle Met. The site — its nickname was “Seattle’s News Elixir” — was founded by Josh Feit with Sandeep Kaushik in January 2009,…

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